1928

Amsterdam 1928

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They were the &ldquo;Flying Finns&rdquo; who lit up the middle\-distance, long\-distance, cross country and steeplechase events at the 1924 Games in Paris\. Their names: Ville Ritola and Paavo Nurmi\. While Ritola won four Olympic titles in the French capital, Nurmi had opened his gold medal haul four years earlier, having

Paavo NURMI

Paavo Nurmi seals record medal tally at Amsterdam 1928

The Uruguayan team had delighted the large crowds in the Colombes Stadium in Paris in 1924, winning the Olympic tournament 3\-0 against Switzerland on 9&nbsp;June, and giving rise to this glowing account in the official report: &ldquo;Football is a team sport, and only the Uruguayans demonstrated this\. Playing with short

In Amsterdam in 1928, the football masters were Uruguayan 

Relive Mikio Oda's gold medal-winning triple jump, which marked the first Olympic gold medal for Japan.

Mikio ODA

Amsterdam 1928 | Olympic Games

Highlights

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Oda Wins Landmark Gold - Athletics | Amsterdam 1928 Highlights

Relive Robert "Bob" King's gold medal-winning high jump at Amsterdam 1928.

Robert Wade KING

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Bob King Crowned High Jump Champion  - Athletics | Amsterdam 1928 Highlights

A look at the era in Olympic history when the swimming pool was dominated by the pioneering Japanese. Starting off with a gold in 1928.

Originals

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Innovative Japanese Dominate Swimming History

At the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam, women were finally allowed to take part in athletics events. There were five of them: the 100m, the 4x100m relay, the high jump, the discus and the 800m – the latter being a very special case with wrong impressions, falsified reports in the

In Amsterdam in 1928, Lina Radke was the first female Olympic 800m champion, but…

At Amsterdam 1928, Lina Radke became the first women's Olympic 800m champion, but…

Like the Games in Paris four years earlier, those in Amsterdam stretched over three months, and began not with the Opening Ceremony \(held on 28&nbsp;July\), but with the field hockey tournament between nine teams in the brand new Olympic Stadium, on 17&nbsp;May\. The teams were split into two divisions, the

17 May 1928 at the Games in Amsterdam: when the world discovered magician Dhyan Chand

This magnificent structure provided the organisers with a few problems, not least how to deal with the increased traffic around the venue\. Like other cities around Europe in the late 1920s, the streets of Amsterdam were filling up fast with cars, and during the Games this issue was more pressing

How Amsterdam 1928 changed the face of car parking forever

She was the first women&rsquo;s 100m champion, she remains to this day the youngest and her story is one of the most remarkable in the annals of the Games\. When she ran in the final of the 100m at the Olympic Games in Amsterdam in 1928, it was only her

Speedy Robinson makes dramatic debut

Much like the Kenyans and Ethiopians dominate distance running now, in the 1920s success in the longer events was the sole preserve of the Finns\.

Flying Finn Ritola signs off with fifth gold

The race itself was an entertaining affair but the reaction to the sight of exhausted female runners prompted organisers to halt women running in races more than 200m for the next 32 years\. The 25\-woman field was whittled down to nine for the final with German Marie Dollinger among the

Radke earns Germany's first athletics gold

Blessed with an agile frame and lightning bursts of speed, Kuck was among the favourites going into the Olympics in Amsterdam yet a broken ankle threatened to derail his chances before the competition even started\. As a student at Emporia State University in Kansas, he broke the world record in

Kuck's record-breaking shot at glory

The rigid, structured nature of the modern competition was a far cry from the event in 1928, when women competed for the Olympic gold medal for the very first time\.

Dutch delight home fans in the gymnastics

When Williams turned up at the Canadian trials in early 1928, not only was he not yet 20 but he had run only a handful of 100m races in his career\. However he booked his place on the boat to the Olympic Games in Amsterdam in emphatic style with victories

Williams races to double sprint success

Oda, from Hiroshima, would enter the history books at the Olympic Games in Amsterdam of 1928 by becoming the first Asian, never mind Japanese, to win an individual gold medal on the biggest sporting stage of them all\. But it wasn&rsquo;t until after a journey of epic proportions to get

Oda jumps for joy 

He learnt the discipline using his own home\-made hammer and ended up winning the sport&rsquo;s biggest accolade borrowing someone else&rsquo;s\. O&rsquo;Callaghan was born in 1905 and was raised in a family steeped in the traditional sporting arenas of the Irish &ndash; Gaelic football, hurling and rugby\. He and his two

Ireland's O’Callaghan hammers home the advantage

Using an explosive run\-up and whiplash action not dissimilar to the leading throwers of today, Erik Lundqvist looked full of confidence in the competition&rsquo;s four\-group format\. Favourite for the event had been Finn Eino Penttila but the occasion got to him and all he could muster was a throw good

Swede smell of success for Lundqvist in javelin

British team\-mate Henry Stallard was favoured to prevail but a foot injury restricted his movements and despite leading for all but the last 100 metres of the race he fell back to fourth and allowed Lowe to take the honours\. But the sense of under\-appreciation weighed heavily on Lowe four

Lowe strikes again in the 800m

Led by the legendary Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runners were the dominant force at the Amsterdam Games and he was expected to add to his bulging haul of gold\. Nurmi had won five gold medals at the Paris Games four years earlier but was absent from the 10,000m after Finnish officials

Loukola overshadows fellow Finn Nurmi in steeplechase 

Utterly dominant in the event was Polish athlete Halina Konopacka who looked like a champion from the very outset of the competition\. Throwing from a basic circle carved out of the grass and sporting a trademark beret, Konopacka cruised through the qualifying round\. The 21 starters were whittled down to

Pure poetry in the discus from record-breaker Konopacka

The now ubiquitous Fosbury Flop, perfected by the American jumper Dick Fosbury to great success at the 1968 Games in Mexico City, was many decades away and the jumpers in Holland used a variety of spectacular techniques with which to clear the bar\. Many used an elaborate scissor\-kick style, which

King reigns supreme in the high jump

Ray Barbuti&rsquo;s victory in the 400m was the only individual victory on the track for the American men although the relay squads made up for the poor performance to some degree by taking home both golds on offer\. However the men&rsquo;s field athletes remained stronger, and none were more defiant

Hamm leaps into Olympic history books

Burghley embodied the larger than life approach of the rank amateur&rsquo; living a champagne lifestyle and introducing the unique technique of placing matchboxes on the each hurdle to perfect his hurdling style\. Strangely, Burghley made little impact on the Paris Olympics of 1924 even though he was later so caricatured

Lord Burghley crowned king of the hurdles

Barbuti had been torn between a career in running and American football after a successful collegiate career in both sports, and he was finally chosen for the 400m and the relay by the selectors for the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam\. The track and field events started badly for the

Barbuti overcomes elements to win double 400m gold

They completely dominated the competition\.

Carr wins battle of Americans for pole vault gold

Weightman\-Smith, one of only 27 athletes who made the trip from South Africa to the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam, shaved two tenths of a second from the world record in a dominant performance in the semi\-finals\. Believing he had achieved all one could expect from an athlete, Weightman\-Smith, under

Hurdler Atkinson achieves redemption on the track